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Spring gardening show hailed yet another blooming success
MALVERN’S 2012 Spring Gardening Show turned out to be a blooming success after all. As weather conditions improved over the weekend, about 90,000 visitors flocked to the four-day event on the Three Counties Showground, which was bathed in sunshine
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Ghostbusters
When my weekly copy of the Ledbury Reporter was delivered on Friday I at first thought that the newsagent had delivered a copy of The Beano comic by mistake when I read the headline referring to the local council employing ‘Ghostbusters’. I would
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Vintage car needed for jubilee parade
ORGANISERS of the Malvern Jubilee Parade on Saturday, June 2, are on the look-out for an open-topped vintage car. The car is needed to carry mayor Ian Hopwood at the head of the parade, after a previous arrangement fell through. Anyone who can help
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Oil painting home after 60 years
AN enormous oil on canvas painting that returned to a local heritage spot after a 60-year absence is undergoing vital conservation work. Called The Great Horse or Jack-a-Dandy, the 14ft by 8ft picture was painted between 1680 and 1710, possibly
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Lucky me
LAST week I wrote to you to ask for an appeal to be published in the Malvern Gazette, for two lost rings. However on Wednesday one ring was found in Belmont Road, Malvern and returned to me by a very kind man via my daughter who had put a poster
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Clampdown is promised on dogging gatherings
POLICE and council officials are clamping down on an infamous dogging area. Brockeridge Common in Ripple is being advertised on the internet as somewhere for people to meet and have sex. Users of the site are parking on a layby on the A38 and
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I will walk all day in memory of my wife
A MALVERN businessman will be taking part in the Worcestershire Way Walk in June in memory of his late wife. Eugenio Grandi, will be joined by family members and friends when he tackles the 31-mile dawn-to-dusk walk, organised by St Richard’s
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Cash only
HAVING moved to Upton in the past couple of months my wife and I always try to shop locally, and since moving to the area we have used most of the local shops. Imagine my suprise when I go went to one shop and when I gave the assistant him my
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Young musicians play to dignitaries
THE most outstanding young musicians from across Worcestershire have played to an audience of dignitaries. The 12 musicians played in the Worcestershire Young Musicians’ Showcase at Huntingdon Hall in Worcester. Among them were Zara Edwards,
